V8 is an incredible piece of machinery, and I really wish other JIT's and languages got access to half the engineering and monetary effort that went into it. >

V8 is an incredible piece of machinery, and I really wish other JIT's and languages got access to half the engineering and monetary effort that went into it. > often running faster than WASM This seems pretty counter to everything I've read about WASM - V8 is some black magic, but WASM should run far faster. What language was the WASM blob compiled from? Mozilla has also demonstrated that they can send the DOM to a WASM blob, have it perform the necessary transformations and return it, faster than JS could perform the same transformations itself.